媒介化研究的“中间道路”:物质性路径与传播型构

The “Middle Way” of Mediatization Research: The Materiality and the Communicative Figuration

晚近二十余年,"媒介化"成为了欧洲媒介社会学界超越效果研究范式的一个新的研究领域。本文基于核心文献的梳理,认为当前国内外学界普遍形成了从"中介化"转向"媒介化"的理论共识,但仍存在着"制度化传统"和"社会建构传统"两条研究路径的分歧。借由当代社会理论中"结构/能动性"的矛盾,我们认为克服媒介化研究现存的分歧在于引入传播研究的"物质性"分析路径。进而借由物质性概念的引入,在中观分析层面,媒介化意味着社会基本联结形式由"型构"转向包含行动者丛、指引框架和传播实践三个基本要素的"传播型构"。本文还就媒介化理论与其余社会理论对话的可能性进行讨论。

As a new research paradigm,"mediatization study"arises among the European tradition of media sociology.Based on literature scanning,this article presents the consensus of departure from mediation to meditiazation and the divergence between institutional tradition and socio-constructivist tradition under current mediatization studies.Through the discussion of"structure/agency"paradox,it then puts forward the materiality in communication studies to overcome the aforementioned deficits,presenting"communicative figuration",including constellations of actors,frames of relevance and communicative practice,as a basic framework to conduct empirical mediatization research.At last,this article will also discuss how other social theories can contribute to our understanding of mediatization study.